Lawrence joined famed science communicator and US national treasure Bill Nye on-stage at his Melbourne show. Together they tackled all manner of fascinating, geeky and curious Audience Questions.

Lawrence wore a bowtie to match Mr Nye, but came across looking like “Bad Chinese Doctor Who Cosplay.”

Off the back of his new Netflix series Bill Nye Saves The World, the educator/science activist toured packed-out theatres Sydney and Melbourne with his trademark wit, wisdom, no-nonsense evidence-based rants and entertaining anecdotes covering everything from his mother’s top secret Enigma codebreaking, to solutions for climate change and the limitations of Mars colonisation.

Lawrence on ABC Radio Adelaide freaking out the radio host Jules Schiller with an “impossible” Very Strange Thing.

Lawrence has taken his wickedly unique blend of psych experiments and stand up comedy to festivals around Australia, with sell out shows and critical acclaim. VERY STRANGE THINGS promises to be the most mind-bending and side-splitting experience you’ll have in a theatre this year. It’s for one night only in Adelaide so BOOK NOW .

Lawrence appeared in two productions having their Australian premieres at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. He played roles in the eagerly anticipated Jane Campion mini-series TOP OF THE LAKE: SEASON 2 and Tin Pang’s heart-wrenchingly honest short MOTHER CHILD.

TOP OF THE LAKE CHINA:GIRL

Currently airing on BBC2, the series continues the story of Detective Robin (Elisabeth Moss) who returns to Sydney for a fresh start, however, the wounds of the past are deep. Encounters with a mysterious suitcase, the dark-side of Sydney and troubled memories, the series also stars Nicole Kidman and Gwendolyn Christie (Brienne from Game of Thrones!)

Playing against type (we promise), Lawrence portrayed NATE a sleazy computer geek who administers a website that reviews brothels.

MOTHER CHILD

Lawrence also appeared in MOTHER CHILD portraying a complex relationship alongside Gabby Chan in Tin Pang’s deeply honest and personal short film. Based on the filmmakers’ own life, the short film is about what happens when roles are reversed and children must now care for parents. Also the role was an unique challenge as it was a 14min one-take film with no cuts or edits - much like a stage play but with choreography between actors, the camera and the art design. Read more about the movie here: www.motherchildmovie.com

Lawrence has taken his wickedly unique blend of psych experiments and stand up comedy to festivals around Australia, with sell out shows and critical acclaim. He’s bringing it back home to Melbourne, one final time, as part of #MMF17. VERY STRANGE THINGS promises to be the most mind-bending and side-splitting experience you’ll have in a theatre this year.

‘ 4.5 STARS Superb and ingenious.’ Australian Stage
‘4.5 STARS’ Beat Magazine
‘4.5 STARS Leung plays the illusionist, charlatan and scientist with witty intelligence’ TheMusic
“4.5 STARS Amazing ” Herald Sun
‘4.5 STARS The laughs come just as often and the humour is just as sharp.’ -The West Australian

The 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards announced their shortlist and the screenplay for SUCKER is nominated for the Betty Roland Prize for Scriptwriting.

Lawrence Leung and Ben Chessel’s film SUCKER, a coming-of-age con artist movie, impressed the judges whom described the script as “a playful approach to narrative conventions without ever undermining our connection to its memorable, multifaceted characters. Amid the fun and games, it is surprisingly wise on matters of identity, trust and love.”

SUCKER began as a one-man stage show written/performed by Lawrence Leung that received the Best Solo Show Award at the 2001 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Over the years, it was adapted as a screenplay, co-written by Lawrence and director Ben Chessell. The completed feature film stars veteran British actor Timothy Spall and newcomers John Luc and Lily Sullivan. SUCKER the movie premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival, was the winner of Best Narrative Feature Award at the St Lawrence Film Festival and was nominated for Best Screen Adaptation at the Australian Writers Guild Awards.

“4½ STARS The laughs come just as often and the humour is just as sharp”

The West Australian

Beardy comedian, writer and star of ABC TV’s Choose Your Own Adventure, Unbelievable, Maximum Choppage and Ten’s Offspring is finally making his Brisbane Comedy Fest debut with some Very Strange Things.

This is unlike any comedy show you have ever seen! An evening of comedic curiosities, mindgames and hilarious stunts described as “mind-blowing” in Time Out magazine’s list of Must-See Melbourne Comedy Festival shows.

After sold out shows and critical acclaim in the Melbourne, Sydney and Perth Comedy Festivals, Lawrence Leung’s cult hit comedy show “Very StrangeThings” comes to Brisbane. Don’t miss out on experiencing the most unique, side-splitting and mind-bending show of the year.

Lawrence is thrilled to have his “letter” to his mother published in the new anthology SIGNED SEALED DELIVERED compiled by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire, the organisers behind literary salon Women of Letters.

Back in 2015, Lawrence was invited to write and perform a “Letter To The Woman Who Changed My Life” at a Men Of Letters event before a packed auditorium at the Regal Theatre in Northcote.

A year later, favourite love letters, confessions and missives from various guest writers at Women/Men/People of Letters events from across 2015/2016 were then compiled into a new book Signed Sealed Delivered (pictured above), available in paperback from good bookstores and Penguin here .

Lawrence posed for artist Dean Manning earlier this year in Sydney. The portrait entitled ‘Maximum Lawrence’ has been announced as one of the finalists in this year’s Archibalds.

According to Art Gallery NSW, the Archibald Prize is awarded annually to the best portrait, ‘preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia’.

Oh, and this comedian!

Congrats to Dean Manning. His portrait as well as all other finalists can be viewed at the Archibald Exhibition at the Art Gallery NSW before the paintings go on tour around Australia.

After sold out shows and critical acclaim in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Lawrence Leung – Very Strange Things is embarking on it’s national tour. So far he’s had incredible nights at the Melbourne, Sydney and Perth Comedy Festivals, and now it’s heading to a city near you. Check here for tour dates/city updates.

Don’t miss out on experiencing the most unique, side-splitting and mind-bending show of the year!

Lawrence is an award-winning standup and filmmaker from TV shows Maximum Choppage (ABC2), Unbelievable (ABC1), Choose Your Own Adventure (ABC1), and the feature film Sucker. He also played an awkward doctor on Offspring. Lawrence has also designed theatrical illusions, pranks and deceptions for stage and TV … so expect something very funny and strange.